SAFETY: A No to Belts and Bags

Though it is intended to save them from
injury or worse, many motorists resent the "interlock" system on 1974
cars, which prevents the engine from starting until the driver and all
front-seat passengers have buckled their seat belts. Impressed by the
volume and vehemence of constituent mail on the subject, House members
voted two weeks ago 339 to 49 to tack onto a Department of
Transportation appropriations bill an amendment that would kill the
requirement that cars be equipped with an interlock system (and also
the annoying buzzer that sounds when a seat belt is unfastened; only a
warning...